Flash Satay Revisited
The most famous and W3 friendly technique to serve an SWF has been described in this excellent A List Apart Article ages ago. Unfortunately there are few problems with that technique, and being Flash Player still widely adopted, plus nobody has created yet a HTML5 friendly Satay method, here I am with this proposal/suggestion. Satay Problems There are at least a couple of problems with the good old Satay method: double SWF request , performed by almost every browser SWF impossible to cache , due necessary queryString for each different SWF so that classic c.swf will be required for each call Object Tag Behavior The Satay method is based over the assumption that an object tag, with a forced type, will help the browser to recognize the SWF. At the same time, if Flash Player is not present or it has been disabled, Satay trick allows us to provide an alternative content inside the Object itself. What we should be aware is that Internet Explorer won't execute any script tag inside ...